Volume 88
Public Law 93–630
To provide for the duty-free entry of a 3.60 meter telescope and associated articles for the use of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Project at Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Approved January 3, 1975
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the duty-free entry of a 3.60 meter telescope and associated articles for the use of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Project at Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
the Secretary
Telescope and articles for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Project.
Duty-free entry.
of the Treasury is authorized and directed to admit free of duty imported articles required by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Project to complete the installation on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, of an optical telescope of 3.60 meters diameter, and the laboratories, equipment, and installations necessary for its operation, as provided for in a memorandum of understanding, signed at Ottawa on October 25, 1973, among the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France, the National Research Council of Canada, and the University of Hawaii.
The admission free of duty provided for in subsection (a) shall be accorded to any article imported by or for the account of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Project if such article is certified by the Executive Director or the Associate Executive Director of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation as being required for the completion of the project in accordance with the memorandum of understanding referred to in subsection (a).
Sec. 2.
The provisions of the first section of this Act shall apply with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, on or before June 30, 1980.
Upon appropriate request therefore filed by the Executive Director or the Associate Executive Director of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation with the customs officer concerned on or before the one hundred and twentieth day after the date of the enactment of this Act, the entry or withdrawal of any article described in the first section of this Act which was made before the date of the enactment of this Act shall, notwithstanding the provisions of section 514 of the Tariff Act of 1930 or any other provision of law, be liquidated
or reliquidated in accordance with the provisions of such first section.
Approved January 3, 1975.